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Questions about specific projects and papers: We'd love to chat! Please make sure to include all authors in any correspondence.
Graduate admissions: I am currently planning to admit one grad student for the 2026 academic year. Submit your application through the graduate admissions portal in the fall. Please read my advising statement if you're interested in the lab, and look at the group website for a sense of what we're working on. See if you're eligible for a fee waiver, and if if you're based in the US, check out the Graduate Application Assistance Program, which provides application writing support (and which many members of my lab are involved in).
Unfortunately, I cannot respond to individual emails about admissions. It's not that I don't want to meet you! But at the peak of the admissions season it's not unusual to get 5+ emails every day from prospective students hoping to talk. If I replied to every one of these there would be no time to do the kind of research that makes people want to work with us 😊. Every application submitted to the portal receives our careful attention; no correspondence outside the official process will influence your admissions decision. If you want to understand more about what this process looks like from the faculty side, Yonatan Bisk has an incredibly informative FAQ page.
Postdocs: We do not have any postdoc openings for the 2026 academic year. But we're always interested in talking to people working in related areas, and can sometimes start planning for future years if there's a really good research fit.
Internships: MIT students should email me directly about UROP recruiting. If you're at another undergraduate institution in the US, you should apply to the MIT Summer Research Program in December / January. Outside these two programs, we do not have any openings for visiting researchers, even with independent funding (and I can't respond to individual emails about visitor positions). High school students should apply to PRIMES.
Press and interviews: If you're interested in talking about a specific paper from our group, or looking for a comment on a colleague's paper, I'd love to talk—please email me directly (you're most likely to be successful with at least a few days' notice). I'm not available for general language model explainers or comments on the state of artificial intelligence research. Media inquiries related to Project CETI should be directed to David Gruber (david@projectceti.org).
Industry consulting and advising: I am not currently available for paid or unpaid consulting on startups, product pitches, etc.
My email address is jda@mit.edu.